October 5th Summer Share # 19

Happy Full Harvest Moon….be sure to look at the beautiful moon tonight before you go to bed and reflect on the wonderful summer season.

A fantastic long late season harvest for us this past week. Great abundance fills our days and we wonder when we will have the time to tackle the clean up. We started hand digging the sweet potatoes and are pleased with the yield after a delayed Spring planting due to issues with our organic supplier. We worried all season long if they would size up and we are grateful they did. Not the amazing bounty of last year but we are satisfied. More squash was hauled in and we harvested all our oddball ornamental/edible winter squashes and pumpkins on a bright sunny day. A HUGE! Thank you to Uncle Jim and Cousin John for making this possible for us. It is one of my favorite crops and it could never happen without their generosity and help.

Oddball winter squash and pumpkin harvesting.

Look at those beauties….!

A Maeve picture of some of the cool ones.

Hauling some of the beauties to storage….a selection will be available at pick up today on the “extra” table outside the garage door if you wish to take 1 for eating/decorating…

SUMMER SHARE #19

1 more pick up remains of the Summer 2017 Season.

Please return all your bags for reuse and also take some time to return the season end survey. Your thoughts are so important in shaping our future seasons. Member suggestions brought back the pie pumpkins this year, requested we grow colored lettuces (which we did for the 1st time this season), and let us know you all love brussels sprouts as much as we do….as well as other helpful comments that improve our CSA.

Sweet Potatoes-We started the harvest with more to come next week. We harvested 2 varieties this week, all white skin and flesh and red skin white flesh either or both in every share.

Sweet potato harvest. Perfect weather too!

Potatoes-Beautiful superior potatoes this week. Great baked or mashed.

Ginger!-Fresh ginger as a treat. It is brushed clean and NOT! washed as we have found this is better for longer storage life. Leave on the counter. Snappy spicy flavor. Great for tea, add to your drinking water, or delicious with creamy pumpkin soup.

Ginger at harvest. LOVE! my hand me down 80’s garden sweater…

Ginger ready to be brushed…

Garlic-2 heads in each snack pack share.

Radish Medley-3 different varieties grown in our carrot trough after the final carrot harvest.

Radishes after washing….they look like peppermint candy!

Spinach-Hoop house grown spinach and we have just started picking off our 2nd rotation that was transplanted out to over winter.

Washed Spinach ready to be bagged up for the shares.

Mini Sweet Peppers-Tons of these sweet little gems were harvested this week. It’s October! Sweet and delicious and long storage life in the refrigerator.

Mini Sweet peppers all portioned out for the shares.

Collard greens-A HUGE personal favorite. I love it raw as my sandwich wrap, added to salad, make a quick side slaw for dinner or wilted in broth as a side is delicious.

Collard green harvest.

Kohlrabi-a late season harvest. Peel the thick outer skin and eat… Great with salads or stir fry.

Pie Pumpkin-Creamy bright orange flesh that roasts down to make a fantastic and flavorful soup. We taste tested one this week and made a soup with coconut milk, garlic, onions, ginger and chunked potatoes in too. It was delicious.

The pie pumpkin harvest a few weeks back….pumpkins all cured in the greenhouse and are ready to eat.

Sweet potatoes-We started the hand digging….enjoy!

Sweet potatoes at harvest.

Potatoes-Superior is the choice this week. Great baked or mashed.

Ginger!-A season end treat….we are thrilled with the yield and the flavor. Store on the counter. These roots have been brushed and not washed to prolong storage life.

Fantastic Ginger!

Scott gently brushing away before they go into the shares…

Garlic-4 heads in every Full share.

Radish Medley-A mix of 3 snappy varieties.

Leaf lettuce-A nice sweet leaf lettuce mix from the hoop house.

Leaf lettuce at morning harvest.

Leaf lettuce in it’s 2nd rinse of 3.

Sweet Peppers-A mixed harvest this week and several appear in all full shares.